Algernon Sydney is Dead wrote:That idiot is being hailed as a "hero" (oh, how far we've fallen) when he should be in jail on reckless endangerment charges.

The correct procedure would have been to instruct the co pilot to "go around" and land the plane properly.

This is the kind of BS behavior that kills pilots and passengers every year. They're lucky that they got off with just a rough landing this time.

It was a British airport, ASID. If a pilot's license works anything like a driving license over here, you have to recklessly endanger people's lives several times before they even think of withdrawing it.

Anyway, it says The Captain decided his copilot didn't have time to assess the situation... I always thought the copilot's job was to stay abreast of what was going on, especially during takeoff and landing, so he/she could take over at a moment's notice. Perhaps they should both be locked up?

And was I the only one who was thinking as I read this, of that scene from the movie Reach For The Skies, where Bader can't escape from his doomed plane because his false leg is stuck under the rudder pedal?

SpareInch wrote:Anyway, it says The Captain decided his copilot didn't have time to assess the situation... I always thought the copilot's job was to stay abreast of what was going on, especially during takeoff and landing, so he/she could take over at a moment's notice. Perhaps they should both be locked up?

Yes, and pilots are trained to abort landings in an instant's notice if something is not right.
Forgetting this training is one of the leading contributors to aviation accidents as documented by the NTSB.